Femmes de Sade

Rocky is a giant brutally fucking and brawling his way through the red-light district of San Francisco. Johnny works at a sex shop, where he indulges in customer-inspired wet daydreams. These two storylines run in parallel almost until the very end, sometimes subtly mirroring or commenting on each other, before the two protagonists’ paths finally cross at a sex party . . . Alex de Renzy, grandmaster of golden-age porn (later a luminary of buttfuck fare under his Rex Borsky alias), delivers a bleak reflection on the abysses of male sexuality with Femmes de Sade—all while remaining unabashedly horny. This kind of ambivalence seems like a lost cultural achievement. (Olaf Möller)